Makers Quotes - Page 26

• Policy is formed by preconceptions, by long implanted biases. When information is relayed to policy-makers, they respond in terms of what is already inside their heads and consequently make policy less to fit the facts than to fit the notions and intentions formed out of the mental baggage that has accumulated in their minds since childhood.

  Barbara Tuchman

  Government, Long, Childhood

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• I'm not a policy maker. I'm not even a very great activist. My main thing is to make things that speak for the culture that I live in.

  Wangechi Mutu

  Culture, Speak, Activist

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• every individual can make a difference ... if we continue to leave decision making to the so-called decision makers, things will never change.

  Jane Goodall

  Responsibility, Differences, Decision

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• The finest fruit earth holds up to its Maker is a finished man.

  Wilhelm von Humboldt

  Men, Earth, Fruit

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• No form of art repeats or imitates successfully all that can be said by another; the writer conveys his experience of life along a channel of communication closed to painter, mathematician, musician, film-maker.

  Storm Jameson

  Art, Communication, Musician

  Storm Jameson (2011). “Parthian Words”, p.88, A&C Black

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• If civilization is going to survive, business and policy-makers must move on, to find within themselves more developed emotions than fear or greed.

  Anita Roddick

  Business, Moving, Civilization

  Anita Roddick (2001). “Take It Personally: How to Make Conscious Choices to Change the World”, HarperThorsons

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• There are times ... when any visitor - in person, by phone, by mail - is an intruder, a burglar, a space hogger, an oxygen taker, a chaos maker, a conflict inducer, a mood chaser, and a total drag.

  Toni Cade Bambara

  Space, Phones, Oxygen

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• Every concerned citizen and policy maker should read this book. The environmentalists will hate it. The world's destitute masses will love it. And everyone will be challenged by it to reexamine their beliefs and the environmental establishment's claims.

  Niger Innis

  Hate, Book, Environmental

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• I dont mean to in any way impugn the makers of Bentley, but that car is nuts. When I do drive, I drive a Toyota Prius. So driving around the streets of Albuquerque in a Bentley made me feel so fake-a-rooney.

  Jessica Hecht

  Mean, Nuts, Car

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• I think the policy makers like the idea of being the boss. I mean people who like to boss other people around like to go into politics so they can become the boss.

  Ron Paul

  Mean, Thinking, Ideas

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• Did any great genius ever enter the world in the wake of commonplace pre-natal conditions? Was a maker of history ever born amidst the pleasant harmonies of a satisfied domesticity? Of a mother who was less than remarkable, although she may have escaped being great? Did a woman with no wildness in her blood ever inform a brain with electric fire? The students of history know that while many mothers of great men have been virtuous, none have been commonplace, and few have been happy.

  Gertrude Atherton

  Mother, Men, Fire

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• For know that all the inferior Creatures when hurt do cry and send forth the complaints to their Maker or grand Fountain whence they proceeded.

  Tom Tryon

  Hurt, Cry, Fountain

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• When television killed comedy and love stories, the movie makers went in slugging. They offered the downbeat, the degenerate as competition. This seems to me to be a sad campaign for Hollywood to use to combat box office disaster.

  Joan Crawford

  Office, Competition, Degenerates

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I simply can't understand the stereotyping women as film makers who make soppy family dramas. Look at Katherine Bigelow: she has directed Point Break and Strange Days. I hate labels of any kind. Just because you are a woman you can't do this or that? Twenty years ago women entering the work force was enough of a shock. People just like the predictable; they feel safe with it. You know, it's such a bore

  Deepa Mehta

  Drama, Hate, Years

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• The question that faces the strategic decision maker is not what his organisation should do tomorrow. It is, what do we have to do today to be ready for an uncertain tomorrow?

  Peter Drucker

  Decision, Today, Faces

  Peter Drucker (2012). “Management”, p.119, Routledge

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• The best laid plot can injure its maker, and often a man's perfidy will rebound on himself.

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Men, Plot, Rebound

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• But the case has proved that to be true which Appius says in his songs, that each man is the maker of his own fate.

  Sallust

  Song, Fate, Men

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• I see myself as more of a policy maker than a political leader.

  Paul Ryan

  Leader, Political, Policy

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• You don't necessarily have to go to film school to be a brilliant film maker. If you are a good listener and you study life, and you find that story that is buried within each and every one of us, and you figure out a way to bring that out. And sometimes it doesn't necessarily mean money or winning the lottery.

  Tony Todd

  School, Mean, Winning

  "Interview with Horror Icon Tony Todd". Interview with Rob Frappier, screenrant.com. October 1, 2010.

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• We can make a huge impact. We can be that difference maker just because of our status and because of what we do. I would advise all professional athletes to get involved and to try to help make a difference. If we don't, who else will?

  Davone Bess

  Athlete, Differences, Impact

  "Miami Dolphins receiver Davone Bess on his recent trip to Costa Rica, God’s purpose for his life and The Bess Route Foundation". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com. June 2011.

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• It is customary for the recipient of this award to offer personal or scholarly comment on the nature and the direction of literature. At this particular time, however, I think it would be well to consider the high duties and the responsibilities of the makers of literature.

  John Steinbeck

  Responsibility, Thinking, Awards

  William Faulkner, Eugene O'Neill, John Steinbeck (1971). “William Faulkner, Eugene O'Neill [and] John Steinbeck”

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• I'm a great will maker. I've made my will every year since I was 21.

  Maeve Binchy

  Years, Made

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• I see, indeed I know, that in some sense God is love, and God is wisdom, and God is creative action, yes and God is beauty; but what God actually is, whether the maker of all things, or the fragrance of all things, or just a dream in our own hearts, I have not the art to know. Neither have you, I believe; nor any man, nor any spirit of our humble stature.

  Olaf Stapledon

  Dream, Art, Believe

  "Sirius" by Olaf Stapledon, (Chapter IX), 1944.

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• We need to find secular ways to cultivate warm-heartedness. We need secular ways to educate ourselves about inner values. The source of a happy life is within us. Trouble makers in many parts of the world are often quite well educated, so it is not just education that we need. We need to pay attention to inner values.

  Dalai Lama

  Happy Life, Needs, Attention

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• Are we simply waving farewell to the days when some of the most interesting thinking in Europe and America came to us from our fiction film-makers? BBC2, which once introduced and showed great films, now shows none.

  David Hare

  Farewell, Thinking, Europe And America

  "David Hare pays tribute to Philip French". www.theguardian.com. August 24, 2013.

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